10.02.2009 by Drumming for Peace In a recent study of world Christianity scholar Lamin Sanneh critically describes the missionary effort to ban drums from African worship services: "The West's Teutonic inhibitions about worship as an expressionless formal activity in ...

21.09.2008 by David W. Congdon Lamin Sanneh adds two further principles under the notion of translation. He begins by noting that Christianity is “polycentric,” meaning that in the process of translation, the church does not move from one central cultural norm to ...

09.03.2007 "Andrew was a pioneer," says Yale University historian Lamin Sanneh. "He is one of the few scholars who saw that African Christianity was not just an exotic, curious phenomenon in an obscure part of the world, but that African ...